New Book: How To Make A Living With Your Writing by Joanna Penn

Now my business has ticked into six figures, I wanted to share how that breaks down and how you can do it too.

Would you like to leave your job and make a living with your writing?

This book will show you how.

I spent 13 years working as a cubicle slave in the corporate world. I was miserable in my job and my creativity was stunted by the crushing daily grind.

Then I started writing books and blogging, using my words to create products and attract readers.

In September 2011, I left my corporate job to become a full-time author and creative entrepreneur and since then I've grown my business year on year – all based on my writing.

More importantly, I'm finally living the happy life I always wanted.

I'm not a Kindle or blogging millionaire and this is not a get rich quick scheme. But I will share with you how I make a six-figure income from writing books, blogging and marketing in an ethical manner.

This is the best time ever to make a living with your writing! Read on to learn more.

Buy the book in ebook format for US$2.99. Coming soon in print.

Table of Contents:

Overview of how I make a living and income split
First principles
Tips on writing and productivity
Tips on mindset

Part 1: How to make money from books

It's not just one book
Your publishing options: Traditional publishing
Changes in the publishing industry
Your publishing options: Becoming an indie author
How to self-publish an ebook
How to self-publish a print book
How to self-publish an audiobook

Part 2: How to make money online in other ways
A business powered by content marketing
Product sales
Affiliate income
Consulting or coaching
Professional speaking
Advertising and sponsorship
Freelance writing
Tips for content marketing

The transition and your next steps

Plus/ Companion Workbook so you can answer the questions in the book for yourself.

Buy the book in ebook format. Coming soon in print.

How is this book different from Business for Authors: How to be an Author Entrepreneur?

Business for Authors is essentially a manual for how to run a business. It's aimed at authors in a mature phase of their career, with several books and who already make some kind of living from writing. It contains things like how to do taxes and accounting, as well as building teams and production plans!

I've learned from feedback that it is perhaps a little too much, too soon, for many authors!

So, How to make a living is for authors in the phase before that. Authors who have one book, a couple of books or who are writing their first book, with an eye on a future that involves writing. It outlines how I make a living and directs you to lots more resources so you can take things further.

Please do let me know any questions below in the comments, and I hope you find the book useful. Thanks!

I presume you’re not looking at USD, Venkatesh? It’s set at US$2.99 in the US and £1.99 in UK and all other countries have different prices, but I wasn’t going to list them all here. Sorry for the confusion.

I repeat: the listing for your book on Amazon.com says US$2.99, but the page itself says $4.70, with a “1 new from $2.99” link. Clicking on that last link made no difference – it went back to the same page. Amazon.in shows a price of Rs. 299, which works out to US$ 4.704 at today’s conversion rate.

I think this has something to do with VAT and/or taxes in general. Amazon adds them on top of the list price depending on your country. For example (I’m in Finland and shopping on amazon.com) the price shown is $3.71.

Lovely Gisborne 🙂 I had a very happy wine festival there once upon a time … not that I can remember most of it 🙂
I’m glad you find the podcast useful – and remember, it just takes time. I started writing “properly” back in New Zealand in 2006/2007 and then moved to Oz. Nearly 10 years later, I’m making a living with it – time and consistent effort changes everything!

Hello, I am a novice trying to build up my art for writing. I have developed this intensity for writing and i thought it to be abnormal. i have over fifty books pending with brief prologues and titles but sometimes i get scared of publishing some of my completed works because i don’t know what others might say.

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